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NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 BLACK JACK BATTLEFIELD Page 1 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 1. NAME OF PROPERTY Historic Name: Black Jack Battlefield Other Name/Site Number: Evergreen Stock Farm; Pearson, Robert Hall, Farm; Sites #04000365, 04001373, 04500000389 2. LOCATION Street & Number: U.S. Highway 56 and County Road 2000, 3 miles east of Baldwin City Not for publication: City/Town: Baldwin City Vicinity: X State: Kansas County: Douglas Code: 045 Zip Code: 66006 3. CLASSIFICATION Ownership of Property Category of Property Private: X Building(s): ___ Public-Local: X District: ___ Public-State: ___ Site: X _ Public-Federal: ___ Structure: ___ Object: ___ Number of Resources within Property Contributing Noncontributing 0 6 buildings 3 0 sites 0 3 structures 0 6 objects 3 15 Total Number of Contributing Resources Previously Listed in the National Register: 6 Name of Related Multiple Property Listing: NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 BLACK JACK BATTLEFIELD Page 2 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 4. STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this ____ nomination ____ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ____ meets ____ does not meet the National Register Criteria. Signature of Certifying Official Date State or Federal Agency and Bureau In my opinion, the property ____ meets ____ does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of Commenting or Other Official Date State or Federal Agency and Bureau 5. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is: ___ Entered in the National Register ___ Determined eligible for the National Register ___ Determined not eligible for the National Register ___ Removed from the National Register ___ Other (explain): Signature of Keeper Date of Action NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 BLACK JACK BATTLEFIELD Page 3 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 6. FUNCTION OR USE Historic: Defense Sub: battle site Current: Recreation and Culture Sub: museum outdoor recreation Landscape park conservation area 7. DESCRIPTION ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIFICATION: N/A MATERIALS: Foundation: Walls: Roof: Other: NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 BLACK JACK BATTLEFIELD Page 4 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Describe Present and Historic Physical Appearance. Summary As the site of the first armed conflict between pro- and anti-slavery forces in the United States, Black Jack Battlefield, located three miles east of Baldwin City, Kansas, is nationally significant under NHL Criterion 1. Though small in scale, the Battle of Black Jack in 1856 had implications far beyond Kansas Territory. The debate over Kansas vividly reflected growing national friction over slavery and the events at Black Jack clearly marked a turning point in the march toward the Civil War. Events here gripped the imaginations and emotions of the nation and the world; more importantly, they also further divided the nation’s already-polarized abolitionist and pro-slavery factions. As politicians, newspapers, and citizens watched the story of “Bleeding Kansas” unfold, hints of a larger and potentially violent conflict to come became increasingly evident. Black Jack Battlefield is also nationally significant under NHL Criterion 2 for its association with the nationally significant abolitionist, John Brown. Both the battle and the coverage of the battle in the nation’s newspapers which followed, introduced the nation to John Brown, who called for armed insurrection to end slavery. Location and Setting Black Jack Battlefield is located in southeastern Douglas County, Kansas, 45 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the Kansas-Missouri state line. The site lies 20 miles south of Lawrence (population 80,000), where the University of Kansas is located, and 3 miles east of Baldwin City (population 3,600), home of Baker University. On U.S. Highway 56, the site is a short drive from Interstate 35. While the area surrounding the battlefield is made up primarily of small to mid-sized, privately owned farms, some suburban development has recently begun to occur along U.S. 56. Geographically, Black Jack Battlefield lies within the Osage Cuestas physiographic province, a landscape of gently sloping topography comprised of shales and sandstones broken by limestone escarpments forming linear ridges known as cuestas. The area’s geology, alternating layers of shale, sandstone, and limestone laid down over millions of years by shallow, fluctuating seas, resembles a tilted layer cake. The battlefield site lies upon high ground on the gentle back slope of a cuesta that rises to the north-northwest to form the steep, roughly east-west escarpment north of Baldwin City, Kansas. This landform is dissected by steep drainageways that have cut ravines into the topography on their course northward to the Kansas River. The underlying geology of the Black Jack Battlefield, centered on a gentle knoll overlaying a sandstone formation containing a groundwater aquifer, supports the presence of numerous springs that feed Captain Creek. The battlefield site lies at the headwaters of Captain Creek in the Lower Kansas River watershed, on the north edge of the topographic divide between the Marais de Cygnes River to the south and the Kansas River to the north. The relatively level east-west ridge that forms the division between these major watersheds was historically known as “The Narrows.” Today, the Black Jack Battlefield is operated by different entities. The one-acre Black Jack Highway Park, located along U.S. Highway 56, is maintained by Kansas Department of Transportation and the Santa Fe Trail Association. Just to the south is the Ivan Boyd Prairie Preserve (18 acres) maintained by Douglas County as a nature preserve and public park. Immediately southwest of the Prairie Preserve, Robert Pearson Memorial Park (.27 acres, established in 1969) is a Douglas County public park. The largest parcel of 39.24 acres was acquired in 2004 by the Black Jack Battlefield Trust for the purpose of preserving the main engagement area of the battlefield, and is now known as the Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park. All four of these parcels lie within the boundaries of the Black Jack Battlefield property listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, with a boundary increase approved in 2005. Within this 60-acre area lie resources associated with the 1856 NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 BLACK JACK BATTLEFIELD Page 5 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form battle, including unbroken prairie, topographic features, and creeks that were pivotal in the course of the battle action. Cultural features survive that are associated with the Santa Fe Trail and the Black Jack Campground, which were also critical to the occurrence of the battle on this site. As a site that represents a key episode in the events associated with “Bleeding Kansas,” the Black Jack Battlefield is also affiliated with the recently designated Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. This Heritage Area encompasses more than 40 counties in Kansas and Missouri. Its goal is to preserve and explore the shared heritage of eastern Kansas and western Missouri, and “to tell the stories that contribute to our national and individual freedoms.” Among these important stories about freedom is that of Bleeding Kansas, which is inextricably linked with the slavery question and the period of cross-border unrest that accompanied the opening of eastern Kansas to settlement in 1854. The Heritage Area will be a partnership of the cultural, historical and land-stewardship organizations in the region. “Bleeding Kansas and the Enduring Struggle for Freedom” is the overarching interpretive theme identified by the Heritage Area that binds together these many sites throughout the region. Resources counted for this property for the purposes of this National Historic Landmark nomination are identified in bold text at the first full mention of their name. Names of contributing resources are followed by a (C), noncontributing resources by a (NC). Description of Existing Conditions of Property Overview The Black Jack Battlefield landscape is comprised of three contributing sites that are evident today through the surviving spatial arrangement of the ravines, creeks, and topography described in accounts of the battle, as well as some cultural features that remain from 1856. The three overlapping, related sites are the site of the Battle of Black Jack, the Black Jack Campground, and the Santa Fe Trail. The stage was set for the nationally significant Battle of Black Jack well before 1856. The regional geographical context dictated the route of the Santa Fe Trail, which began in 1821, and the placement of the campground along it. From the Black Jack area to the north and west past Palmyra and Brooklyn, the long, level ridge top named “The Narrows” was the most easily passable route for early travelers; the Santa Fe Trail was established along this alignment in the early nineteenth century. This alignment minimized stream crossings and provided a well-drained and level route for trail traffic. However, the upland course of the Santa Fe Trail along The Narrows created a problem of limited access to potable water sources, which were primarily below the ridgeline.
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